KDE4 Revisited, Adding Widgets to the Panel
Now that there’s a new point version and I’ve had a chance to work KDE4 over properly, I thought it time to revisit it. As it turns out, putting a widget on the KDE4 panel isn’t all that hard.
To add a widget to the panel instead of adding it to the desktop, simply click on the star on the widget dialog. Then left click and drag the star to the place you’d like it on your toolbar (is that still kicker? no idea). Pretty simple, just not intuitive.
Adding items from the K-Menu is much easier. Just right click and select “Add to Panel”. Way to use the same methodology across the desktop guys ;p. Might want to have a right click add-to-panel method in the widget dialog as well as that’s a comprehendable way of doing things.
So far the layout is fairly usable, although the icons having a huge transparent block around them is still disconcerting. It seems a bit of unnecessary clutter and looks funky.
Note that this is after updating to Xorg 1.3 and KDE 4.0.0.1. Everything appears to work fine, and I’m not seeing that odd OpenGL performance hit that the systems took running KDE 3.5.
Current verdict is that there’s still quite a bit of work to be done but the release is usable and fairly clean. Good job.